De Blasio touts $100M plan to provide healthcare for all NYC residents

De Blasio touts $100M plan to provide healthcare for all NYC residents

Delores Daniels
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08 January, 2019, 21:47

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday announced a plan to provide health care for all New Yorkers, including those who can not qualify for health insurance such as undocumented immigrants.

De Blasio appeared on MSNBC on Tuesday morning to unveil his new plan to provide affordable medical care for all New Yorkers, regardless of their income or immigration status.

But it's unclear how the program will be funded, and Republicans swiftly objected to using taxpayer dollars to pay for health care for those in the country illegally.

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The plan, which isn't precisely a plan - details are scant on how the system will actually work - will cover everything from mental health services, to well visits, to maternity care for New Yorkers who choose to go without insurance, or who can't afford even the basic, public insurance option that New York City already offers, and aren't signed up for "Obamacare" options on the state exchange.

Under de Blasio's program, 600,000 estimated uninsured residents will soon be insured.

"Health care is a right, not a privilege reserved for those who can afford it", de Blasio said in a statement.

"Our citizens have hard enough time covering their own healthcare costs", Nicole Malliotakis, a member of the New York State Assembly who represents Brooklyn and Staten Island, tweeted. First we're getting you your health care. "In this city we are going to make that a reality", De Blasio repeated at a press conference on the expansion Tuesday morning. Yes it should. Let me just make that clear at the outset. "Now, @nycmayor also wants them to pay for healthcare of 300,000 citizens of other countries". We're going the opposite direction. The emergency room is the worst way to get health care, it's the most expensive way to get health care, ' he said. He added that the program will be up and running this year and will be built out over the next few years.

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